Railway-car.



No. 817,068. PATENTED APR. 3, 1906. J. R. JONES.

RAILWAY UAR.

APPLICATION FILED K0120, 1905 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

Nd. 817,068., PATENTED APR. 3,1906. .1. B. JONES. RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20,1905.

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UNITED E3 Arne PAT 1%? NT OFFIGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 3, 1906.

Application filed November 20, 1905. Serial No. 288,396.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. Jones, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dunmore, in the county of Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in railway-cars, particularly box-cars for carrying grain and the like.

It has chiefly for its object to facilitate more especially the loading of the car and to effect the same in an expeditious and continuous manner; and it consists of certain instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof with the central opening door or closure slid clear to the extreme end of its movement at one end of the car. Fig. 2 is a central cross-section of the same, one of the relatively upper doors or closures being shown in dotted lines adjusted to its open position. Fig. 3 is a side view with the central door in closed position, as also the other doors; and Fig. 4 1s a central longitudinal section of the car.

In the disclosure of my invention I provide the car 1, preferably of the ordinary closed or box type, with the usual opposite central doorways or openings 2 and with four additional door-openings 3, also in opposite or both sides thereof and one arranged upon each side of each of said central dooropenings, preferably near the top of the car. Doors or closures 2 are provided, as usual, for the central openings or doorways 2, each being mounted in position upon and adapted to travel between upper and lower rails or guides 2 secured, as ordinarily, to the sides of the car, near the top and bottom edges thereof, and extending the entire length of the car. Said doors are thus permitted to be slid. to either extreme end of the car-for example, as disclosed by Fig. 1and there upheld by suitable suspending-chains 2 and hooks and staples secured in the door and car, respectively, as will be readily under stood. By this arrangement either central door, according to the side upon which it may be desired to load the car, may be slid or removed clear out of the range of the upper or top door-openings 3, as shown, to perunit continuous access to all of the openings for facilitating or expediting the loading the car therethrough, as is apparent.

Doors or closures 3*, provided for closing the door-openings 3, are suitably hung, as shown by Fig. 2, and so as to be practically weather or moisture tight, and which are ar ranged so as to be opened or swung inward and upward, as indicated by dotted lines, and engaged by and thus retained in their open position preferably by swiveled hooks 4, depending from the car-roof timbers, as shown by said figure. These doors are suitably equip ed with bolt-fastenings 5, as also disclosec by Fig. 2, adapted to engage cleats 6 upon the inside of the car for suitably securing said doors in fastened position.

From the above it is noted that it being required to load the car the central door or closure upon the requisite side of the car is slid or removed to the extreme end of its movement out of the range of the u per door-opening, access to which it woul otherwise obstruct, as when opening said central door, and there sustained or upheld, as aforesaid. The other doors 3 resumably having been 0 ened and secure in elevated open positlon, a portable chute, suitably applied to the fixed chute from whose contents it is intended to fill or load the car, is suitably disposed to deliver through the door-opening at one end of the car, and as the filling or loading operation proceeds the car is of course moved up accordingly. Upon reaching the central doorway-frame the portable chute is temporarily removed from the fixed chute and shifted after the required movement of the car to the opposite side of said doorway-frame and agam attached to said fixed chute and the loading or filling operation continued until the car is properly loaded, the filling or loading operation thus being effected continuously, as would not other wise be the case. It will be understood, of course, that the upper doors are lowered or closed and suitably secured after the loadin of the car and that a suitable improvised partial closure is used for the central doorway for use during such loading of the car, the door proper finally being slid to close said central doorway or opening.

I claim 1. A box-car equip 36d with opposite central doorways and a c osure or door for each of the latter, and, upon each side of each of said doorways, with a door-opening arranged in the upper part of each side of the car, said ICO sides for the movement thereon of said ceni tral door or closure, and means for suspending or upholding the latter in its extreme or projected position.

3. A box-car equipped with opposite central doorways and closures or doors therefor,

and provided upon each side of each of said doorways, with an upper door-opening arranged well up near the top edge of the car, inward and upward swinging closures for the latter door-openings, the first-noted doors or 20 closures being movable along the car sides,to the extreme ends of the car, and retaining means for holding said first-noted doors projected from the car ends.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 25 in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES R. JONES. Witnesses:

VENA G. HUBLER, HARRY O. HUBLER. 

